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Plot Summary:
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, UK, Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspense, independent film, psychological
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The Rendering (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after being molested in art school by habitual rapist Theodore Gray, who is serving 25 years but eligible for parole, Sarah Reynolds leads a happy life in a gallery and with her handsome husband, lawyer Michael Reynolds, and helps police detective Nick Sousa, who put Grat away, as sketch-artist. Then new cases following Gray's MO occur, and a victim who got away gives a description Sara hesitates to confide to paper: it fits Michael scarily. She turns it in, yet once he's behind bars searches in and is blackmailed to plead Gray's paroling or his crime cahoots will torture Michael to death.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective, tense, realistic
Similar in 80%
Playmaker (1994)
Plot Summary:
A would-be actress uncovers horrifying files on other starlets.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, mind bending, realistic
Similar in 82%
Temptation (1994)
Plot Summary:
After five years in prison for insurance fraud the sailor Lanarsky is released. Together with his buddy Bone he gets a job as seamen on board the yacht owned by the wife of his insurance fraud-partner Michael Reddick. Lanarsky has a question to his former partner who he thinks tried to cheat him. But Michael Reddich himself has another insurance plan ready where he will kill everybody on board the yacht, blow it up and then claim the life-insurance for his wife. But Lanarsky and the wife Lee escape and follow Michael to the nearby Cayman Island where the final showdown takes place.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Crimes of Passion (2005)
Plot Summary:
While in competition for a job promotion, the female competitor sues her male counterpart for sexual harassment. Blackmail and murder follow closely behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Thriller, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, touching, surprise ending
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Stranger at the Door (2004)
Plot Summary:
Katherine "Kathy" is happily married to businessman Greg Norris and lives in his beautiful home with his about 18-year old daughter Tara. When suddenly a charming young man, who Tara first saw lurking around in the garden, turns up on their doorstep claiming he must be Jamie, the baby son she once gave up for adoption as a teenage mother on her parents' orders, the couple is delighted to meet him. They even take him in as they hear his adoptive parents have died in car accident and he's looking for a place to stay during his business studies just like Greg, to pay for which he held various jobs, even in Rio. The only one who remains suspicious is Tara, who doesn't want to be the kid sister and starts looking for holes is Jamie's story, going trough his things and having a friend examine his past- there are, since he didn't tell the Norris family about his lover who helps him unconditionally with his sinister hidden agenda.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Corridor (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lonely medical student Frank is pleased with his flat, a quiet place to focus on his coming exams. But when he meets the girl upstairs, the intrusive Lotte, he realizes there is something wrong with the place. Each time he leaves his apartment, Frank is scared... the talkative concierge, the annoying child, the love-sick Lotte, her brutal ex-boyfriend and above all, her new jealous boyfriend, the scary Micke, they all seem to be Frank's enemies.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, scary, realistic
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BlackMale (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Plot is actually pretty crafty and full of (surprisingly) unsuspecting twists. The special effects are actually quite realistic which is surprising for such a low budget movie. Bokeeem Woodbine plays his role with a serious emotion that only adds to the hilariousness of the movie. Justin Pierce (R.I.P) is hilarious as a guy who has possibly the worst day of his entire life. The comedy of the movie culminates in the final 10 minutes that have had me and everyone else watching the movie rolling on the floor for hours. This movie is a classic and deserves more respect.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, hood, independent film
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Riddle (2013)
Plot Summary:
Holly & Nathan Teller live in a small town in Pennsylvania. Holly is on the cheerleading team and has a close relationship with her younger brother Nathan, who is subjected to bullying at school. Nathan is taken for a car ride one day by the bullies, whose intent about what they are going to do with Nathan is not clear. He gives them the slip, but disappears and is still missing after three years.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mind bending, serious, disturbing, atmospheric, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Inju: The Beast in the Shadow (2008)
Plot Summary:
The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer Shundei Oe, considered by him to be the master of manipulation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, stylized
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From the Inside (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alone in their isolated home where no cars pass and no one lives nearby, Vincent and Tally suffer together in a loveless marriage. But what they don't know is that they are not as alone as they think -- a criminal and his psychotic brother are watching them through binoculars. They stare lustfully at Tally through the windows and plan something horrible for the unhappy couple when night falls.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, independent film
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The Perfect Student (2011)
Plot Summary:
A criminology professor becomes a target herself when she tries to establish the innocence of her star student in a murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, psychological, tense, psychological thriller, sexy, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic
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Past Tense (1994)
Plot Summary:
A former cop who is now a novelist notices an attractive young woman move in next door to him. He strikes up a conversation, one thing leads to another and he spends the night. She asks him to come back the next evening, but when he does he discovers that she has been killed. When he reports the murder, he is told that no such woman ever lived there, and when he gets back to the house there's a completely different woman staying there--who he's never seen before--who claims that she's lived there for years and no other woman has ever lived there.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, surprise ending
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Save Me (1994)
Plot Summary:
An accountant (Hamlin) beleaguered by personal and professional problems gets involved with a femme fatale (Anthony) and her mysterious psychiatrist (Ironside).
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, neo noir, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, sexual, hot
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Choke (2001)
Plot Summary:
Henry, an uptight businessman who sometimes acts with questionable ethics, nevertheless rejects Ron, a scam artist who wants a partner. Ron won't let up and finds a lever to blackmail Henry, whose daughter Gina has killed a pedestrian in a hit-and-run car accident. To protect Gina, Henry disposes of Ron, but a murderous sociopath witnesses this crime. Henry and this stranger bond in an odd way, telling stories about their childhoods. Henry makes a deal with the stranger, helping to get rid of the body of one of the stranger's victims. Will this act seal a bargain between the two men and get Henry off the hook, or will the stranger threaten Henry and Gina?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Chaos (2000)
Plot Summary:
A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. She lets herself be tied up and confined in his house while he sends the ransom demand. When he returns home that night, however, he finds her laying dead on the floor. In a panic he buries her body deep in the woods and tries to return to his ordinary life. One day, he thinks he spots her walking down the street. Is his mind playing tricks on him, or has she somehow returned from the grave?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, non-linear, suspense, suspense thriller, twisted, bleak, serious, realistic
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The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
Plot Summary:
A writer named Adrian Messenger believes a series of apparently unrelated "accidental" deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, recently retired from MI5, to help clear up the mystery. However, Messenger's plane is bombed while he is en route to collect evidence to confirm his suspicions and, with his dying breath, he tries to tell a fellow passenger the key to the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, realistic, enigmatic, captivating, political thriller, twisted, tense, clever, suspenseful
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A Killer Upstairs (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman investigates when her teenage son is arrested for his married lover's murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending, bleak, serious
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The Only Witness (2002)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing a brutal murder, a little girl is quickly surrounded by a group of law-enforcement professionals and a psychologist.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, bleak
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The Lady Vanishes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful and wealthy young socialite Iris Carr is used to being at the heart of her social group, but when her friends' raucous and unsociable behaviour escalates whilst on holiday in the Balkans she resolves to seek out some tranquillity and travel home alone. But her expectations of peace are short-lived when, at the railway station, Iris wavers in the scorching heat and constant jostle of passengers, fainting suddenly on the platform. She wakes in time to be rushed onto the train, but with a pounding head and a feeling of being almost in a dream. Whilst in this malaise she is comforted by an older English lady called Miss Froy, but when Iris falls asleep she awakes to find Miss Froy has gone and her fellow passengers denying she ever existed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspense, absurd, period piece, mind bending, realistic
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Murder in My House (2006)
Plot Summary:
Before Lauren and her dad, Stran, even settle into their beautiful new house, she learns that it was once the site of a grisly homicide! When her pops, a former prosecutor, becomes obsessed with cracking the case, he's murdered. And it's up to Lauren to pick up the trail of clues to bring the killer to justice — or end up dead like dear old Dad.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, realistic
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Fatal Acquittal (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman accused of murdering her husband is found innocent, only to be terrorized by the real killer once she is set free.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful
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Seduced by Lies (2010)
Plot Summary:
Brad Sterling arrives by yacht as a handsome dream prince, and the discrete favorite nephew and brilliant investor of his tycoon uncle Wade. Charles Colton's ingrate heiress Laura eagerly dates him and puts him in the guest-house, partially as spiteful as alliterative to workaholic tycoon pa's preferred son-in-law Jonathan Lawson, son of tycoon Richard. People who warn fickle Laura get irate reactions, best friend Ava even dies in a suspicious hit and run, yet Laura also turns on either suitor in turn, oblivious to serious indications of manipulation.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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I Know What I Saw (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mourning the loss of her father, who committed suicide, Mackenzie starts having hallucinations of killing people. They seem so real that she's convinced she's been committing these crimes; however, she can find no evidence to support this. Is she losing her marbles, or is there something sinister at work around her?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Women of the Night (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three entwined stories of love, lust, danger and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, captivating, independent film, sexy, sexual
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Cyberstalker (2012)
Plot Summary:
After spending several years in seclusion, a woman encounters the stalker who murdered her parents over a decade ago, and fears she may be his latest victim when he starts to cyber-stalk her.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Shadow of Doubt (1998)
Plot Summary:
An attorney (Melanie Griffith) uncovers a political conspiracy in the brutal killing of a wealthy young woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
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Wall of Secrets (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young lovely moves to Chicago to be with her husband. They are both amazed at the terrific apartment they obtained for very little rent. Unfortunately this apartment comes with an unsavory history. As if that isn't bad enough, there are sounds and noises in the walls!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Thriller, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, exciting, touching
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Terrible Angels (2012)
Plot Summary:
Detective Ben Nolan is sent to investigate the story of a convicted prostitute and known drug dealer Linda Grossel. Linda explains that she was kidnapped and held captive for weeks. As the investigation unfolds, Linda's sanity is put to question, leaving Ben to decide whether to go on with the investigation or leave Linda to the fate of the prison system.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological, realistic
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McBride: Dogged (2007)
Plot Summary:
The annual LA Kennel Club Dog Show gets treated to an unexpected surprise when a backstage murder incriminates the winning canines' handler.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Megachurch Murder (2015)
Plot Summary:
After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a church conspiracy and threats toward her father, she is determined to prove that Hamilton's death was murder not suicide. As she gets closer to the truth, she realizes her own mother may be involved in her father's murder...and that the boy she is falling in love with is the son of his killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful